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"Whatever people think about this issue, we know it's controversial, there's no denying when a president speaks out for the first time like that, it is history," co-host of ABC's "Good Morning America" George Stephanopoulos said to Robin Roberts. And let me tell you, George, I'm getting chills again," "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts said about her interview with Obama.

Senior Airman Michael Kearns had been back from Iraq for only two months when he was pulled over on a Florida highway for going more than 120 miles per hour on his new Suzuki. He knew his motorcycle riding was reckless, but after living through daily mortar attacks on his base in Iraq, he said he needed the adrenaline rush. “When you get here, there’s nothing that’s very exciting that keeps your pulse going,” Airman Kearns, 27, said in a recent interview. His experience is so common that the United States military, alarmed by a rising suicide rate and the...

Tennessee's six historically black colleges and universities will receive an estimated $34.5 million over 10 years in badly needed assistance as part of the student loan reform legislation President Barack Obama signed into law last week.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- In the world of Christian video games, players sport the armor of God, the best weapon is a ball of holy energy known as a ''smite,'' and demon-possessed Roman soldiers drop to their knees in prayer when they're hit. Right now, the religious-themed games represent just the tiniest fraction of an $11-billion industry, but developers expect the market to grow with the popularity of faith-based movies and books such as Mel Gibson's ''The Passion of the Christ'' and the ''Left Behind'' series of novels. Just how to make the jump to the mainstream, finding producers for Christian...

THE novi Russki, Russia’s new rich renowned for luxury cars and grand villas in the south of France, have a new pastime. They pay thousands of pounds for a taste of life as a beggar, a prostitute or a traffic warden. Bored with their gilded lifestyles, wealthy bankers and businessmen are seeking new thrills through elaborate pranks organised by a company that allows them to be poor and filthy. In one entertainment clients pay £3,500 to play at being homeless. They are disguised by costume and make-up artists who dress them in rags and smear them with rotten turnip. Players...